Being a teenager during the early
sixties, Colin's only ambition was to be involved somehow
in music.

In 1963 he met up with brothers Jim and John
Yardley, and together they formed a typical guitar based group of the time
called the Spectrum. No great waves were made but the group was an
excellent vehicle for forging the powerful harmonies which were to become
the trade mark of the very early Bully Wee Band.

By 1969 Colin, having become fascinated with
the Dylan/Donovan/S & G etc folk revival, had teamed up with London
based traditional singer Jo Vincent. Jo and her husband Bill taught
Colin pretty much everything one needed to know about the early seventies
folk club circuit, but in 1971 he split to reunite with Jim and John
Yardley and form the Bully Wee Band.

In 1974 Colin left Bully Wee to move to
Rochester, Kent where he kept himself involved in the folk scene with the
aforementioned Jo
& Bill by running The Wish It Was a Brewery Folk Club.
Widely considered to be one of the country's best folk clubs of the time.

In 1979 John Yardley left the Bully Wee Band and Colin
was asked to rejoin.

After the band split in 1983 Colin carried on
touring with Ian Cutler and busied himself in collaborations with Doug Hudson's
Jezreels Ceilidh Band and Eavesdropper with Pete and Chris Fyfe.

In 1987 he received a call from comedian Jim
Davidson to join him in his touring band and that was the last the folk
scene saw of Colin for a good 15 years.

Colin now lives in the West Country enjoying
the quieter side of life writing and gigging around the Torbay area
awaiting the next outing with the Bully Wee Band

The Bully Wee Band albums he features on are
The Madmen Of Gotham, for which he wrote the title track, the live album
50 Channels - Live, The Vintage Years and Like The Snow. His discography apart from
that is:-